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Athena Biggs

Athena Biggs

Athena Howell

Contact Information

PhD '25, Advisor: Jay Fournier
She/Her/Hers

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience/Imaging
  • Mental Illness
  • Social Neuroscience

Education

  • BS in Neuroscience (2017), Brigham Young University

Research

 

Awards

2019 - H. Dean and Susan Regis Gibson Award, CCBBI

2018 - Dean's Distinguished University Fellowship, The Ohio State Graduate School

2022 - 1st Place Oral Presenter, Biological Sciences, OSU Hayes Forum

Publications

Howell, A. L., Osher, D. E., Li, J., & Saygin, Z. M. (2020). The intrinsic neonatal hippocampal network: rsfMRI findings. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124(5), 1458–1468.